Monday, April 24. 1087

DDT and so on poured into a Coke bottle, or I should not use any name brand, a pop bottle and left lying about. Carlessness, that is your key word in all of this. I have heard of stupidity put on it too, but I prefer the word carelessness and I think we are all careless.

Had I spoken earlier, I would have suggested that maybe the Member from Third Prince, that was out for a few days, was careless. Thank heavens I didn’t, because when I learned the true fact, I believe this was an accident that was non- preventable at least at his age. However, there may have been carelessness in the putting together of the crate that the bottom dropped out of and caused my very good friengl inconvenience, misery, pain, and suffering and possibly costs money- wise as w l.

There are many things we can do in the line of safety, particularly in the home. I would like to make two comments on home safety. 1. The Leader of the Opposition, a few years ago he and I were very closely connected in the Red Cross program, and I know of his interest over the past years in safety. I had wondered when I got into politics, how I was going to get around our new Premier on safety. I spoke on the radio on Home Safety on occasion a few months ago, and I had oc- casion to go into his home later that day, and when I was there he said, “I have an idea I want to show you." He had a closet in the hall on the main floor of his home, he opened the closet door and there were two or three shelves up on the top of the closet that were never used, possibly only for storage. He had gotten a piece of plywood, a couple of .hinges and a lock and that is where they keep their medicine, locked out of the way so their children cannot get a hold of them. So I do not believe we have to talk too much safety to him because any man that would do that in his own home, certainly has some awareness of the problem of safety.

In the education part of Home Safety, I would like to suggest that groups study one phase of safety in depth at a time, rather than try to hit several and get very little out of any. New homes are being built every day. I wonder how many of them think of safety features within the home when they are designing it and making their original plans? And of these things may prevent a death later on in the home, possibly from fire, from explosion, and from poisoning, and what have you, falls and so on. Even the lighting in a home and where they are situated, could have a definite effect on safety.

I think the time to promote safety is in our youth. I am very pleased that they are now teaching First Aid as part of their health course in Grade IX class. This is a start as well as broader education and so on. But all of these youth programs on safety have something to do with the outlining, for future years, their attitudes and the proper means of taking care and looking forward to the future for a safe, happy life.

In home safety, I think probably poisons are the one that all of us as adults can do something about and prevent. It is carelessness on our part as parents, and I think that if we tighten up our guide lines around our homes on the placement of pills and so on, and different types of cleaning fluids, we would prevent three to five deaths every year in our Province. While we are dealing with the home, I think a word on the farm comes in because we think. in our rural areas, of home and the farm as one.

In farming, we had nineteen accidents last year at a cost of $11,193 per accident.

In industry, there are eighty-nine at a cost of $11,300.00 and some.

So, Mr. Speaker, the point I would like to make here is that it costs you just as much if you break your leg on the farm as you do it by a piece of machinery in a plant. I would like to see something done whereby all farmers would be covered by Workmen’s Compensation. It is a very very cheap insurance to have; they are working around machines and as we know the accident rate is just as hazardous, and possibly more so, than in industry where they have example, the wearing of goggles, the proper type of clothing, coveralls, and so on. It would be wonderful if I could produce a resolution here, move it, and have it unanimously

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